From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: M-! and dired ! history lists lack bridges between them Date: 13 May 2002 11:44:47 -0600 Organization: IHS Engineering, Electronic Systems Development Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021327025 26740 127.0.0.1 (13 May 2002 21:57:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 21:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 177NoW-0006xB-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 23:57:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177JtK-0004xR-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from dfw7-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.106]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177JsW-0004r4-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 13:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by dfw7sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmoru23188 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 17:44:54 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 19:44:54 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 13 May 2002 19:44:53 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 12 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1021311892 21087200 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1340 jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes: > It may be that the M-p M-n history for M-! and dired ! have no bridges > between them. There should be a special keystroke that will one to > yank lines from the other's history list too. It would be cool if there was a generalized way for different history variables to share values, either by a variable analogue to defalias (which would make them identical) or by an inheritance mechanism (kind of like keymaps). -- Kevin Rodgers